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Wenn article: Ivery's past

Grey's Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo is convinced her fiance's drug-dealing past is behind him as she prepares to marry the Los Angeles music producer. Pompeo has been dating Chris Ivery since 2003 and the couple got engaged in November 2006. Court records obtained by Star magazine show Ivery has at least 13 criminal convictions in Massachusetts and has served three jail sentences. In 1987, at the age of 19, Ivery was arrested for possession of cocaine and cannabis with intent to supply. He was fined and given probation after being convicted of both counts in 1990. After missing three probation hearings, Ivery was sentenced to three months in jail. Later in 1990, Ivery was sent back to jail after being arrested for "trafficking in cocaine" and for cocaine possession. Following eight further convictions, Ivery was sentenced to 14 months in a Pennsylvania federal prison and was released in June 1995. Three years later, Ivery admitted planning to bring a 10 pound cannabis haul back to Boston, Massachusetts after being arrested accepting the package in Arizona. He was given a two year suspended sentence and sentenced to six months house arrest. But Pompeo insists Ivery's past is no surprise to her and has vowed to stand by her man. Her spokesperson tells Star, "Ellen knows all about that stuff. It was a long time ago."

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Richard & Judy UK Talkshow - June 20

Ellen also revealed that the chemistry between the Grey's Anatomy cast is the secret to its success. Speaking on the TV show Richard and Judy she said: "The chemistry of the cast is just lightening in a bottle. You can't sort of plan it, you can't predict it. (read more)

"We just all have tremendous chemistry and we got very, very lucky and we all get on very well and I think the audience feels that.

"They all are very, very skilled actors and really make you feel the stories."

Ellen also revealed how she and her co-star Patrick Dempsey are neighbours.

She said: "Patrick Dempsey and I were neighbours. We hadn't met but of course I had known that he lived on the street because all the girls would say 'oh Patrick Dempsey lives in that house up there'.

"And so when I tested for the role and I had to test with the would-be love interests I saw his name on the sheet and I said 'oh it's going to be him'. I had a feeling because things kind of work like that don't they."

Ellen, who loves the traditional British dish bangers and mash, had to perform a fake operation on a plastic model to win her meal on the chat show. She won three sausages.

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Ellen says goodbye to her dog - June 15, 2007

Ellen Pompeo cuddles her dog before jumping in a limo with fiance Chris Ivery. The Grey's Anatomy star refused to hand her tiny pet to her assistant until Ivery threatened to leave without her. Pompeo then cried 'But I can't leave them' before reluctantly leaving her pets and heading for the airport in a blacked-out limousine.

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Grey's Anatomy Unplugged Spain

Ellen	Ellen and Patrick

When he was asked about his audition for Derek's role he said about his co-star Ellen Pompeo that they inmediatly connect cause she's from Boston and he's from Maine and her accent made him feel very comfortable and she had something in her eyes, something very appealing.Later, Ellen said that it's fun and they're lucky cause they have a great chemistry, they're good friends and they like being together cause they understand each other and it makes everything easier cause she had to make love scenes with people she doesn't like but she does like Patrick.
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US Magazine “Life Out Loud” interview

Ellen Pompeo: "I Was Raised By Drag Queens"
Friday June 15, 2007

Grey’s Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo’s actions spoke as loud as her words on June 9 at the “Life Out Loud” benefit in Los Angeles. While Pompeo took the high road when addressing costar Isaiah Washington’s firing, just her presence at the event for LifeWorks, which finds mentors for gay and lesbian youth, spoke volumes. She sat down exclusively with Usmagazine.com's Jeffrey Epstein at the event to talk about why she cares about the cause and what she would do if she was the mother of a gay child.

US: How did you get involved with LifeWorks?

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Ellen Pompeo: I got involved through Chip Sullivan who’s a dear friend and fellow Bostonite. He speaks so passionately about the organization. It’s such a wonderful organization. I would love to see it be taken nationwide.

US: Growing up did you have gay people in your life?
EP: Yes, a ton. I was raised by drag queens practically. And when I left Boston at 20 years old, I went to South Beach with all of my gay friends. Always very close with the gay community.

US: Was there anyone when you were younger who touched your life?
EP: I wouldn’t say there was one person who touched my life. There were several people who touched my life. My mother died when I was four years old, so I was effectively raised by a bunch of different people. And a lot of those people were friends of my sister, Kathleen (I have three sisters), who had all these gay friends. She would baby-sit me everyday, and she would take me over to her friend’s houses with all kinds of things going on: tucking, and eyebrow drawing, waxing, all sorts of things. I was literally raised by gay men. And a lot of other people: my grandmother, my aunts and uncles, but I spent a great deal of time with a lot of gay men.

US: Obviously there was a lot of controversy on your set this year, but you’re making a big statement by being here. How did that all unfold for you?
EP: I choose to focus on, now what has happened but what we can do. What can we do to make things like this [referring to Isaiah’s outburst] not happen again? What can we do to be proactive and change the environment and more forward and make it a day when we don’t have these problems. And hopefully organizations like LifeWorks moves us in that direction.

US: How did it affect you to hear the kind of language, that word, that obviously a lot of gay youth hear every single day?
EP: I’m not going to take the martyr position and say, “It hurts me deeply”‚ because I don’t know what it is to bear that burden. I don’t know what it is to be gay. I don’t know that struggle and pain—or, hopefully, that happiness and joy. I don’t know that experience. But what I do see is my friends who are hurt by that language.

US: And when T.R. came out, it was an amazing positive thing. It puts a really good role model out there.
EP: I have to say, when T.R. came out, I did cry. Such tremendous courage. Most people don’t have to come out to the world like that.

US: Is your fiancee Chris Ivery as open minded as you?
EP: Yes, he grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of the most liberal places on the planet. And he grew up with a white Jewish mother and a black father, so he has had to deal with a lot of diversity issues as well. So we’re very open minded.

US: Cher is famous for having said how, despite having tons of gay friends and fans, she didn’t take it so well when Chastity came out of the closet. How would you feel if your child was gay?
EP: Just fine. As long as my child was happy and healthy and hopefully could grow up and decorate my houses!

US: Do you want to have kids?
EP: Maybe not kids. Maybe one.

US: Have you and Chris set a date.
EP: We have not.

Source: US

2nd annual Life Out Loud cocktail reception - June 9, 2007

Ellen Pompeo helped kick off Pride month when she hosted the 2nd annual Life Out Loud cocktail reception in Los Angeles. The Grey's Anatomy doc is honorary chair of LifeWorks Mentoring, a program that helps enrich the lives of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youths. (read more)

Tonight my friend Jeffrey (Entertainment editor at US Weekly Magazine!) and I attended a benefit for Lifeworks GLBT Youth Mentoring, a great program that pairs a GLBT mentor doing well in their career with a GLBT young person.

Jeffrey was there to interview Ellen Pompeo, who plays “Grey” on “Grey’s Anatomy”. She was beautiful, friendly and funny. John Amaechi, the first out gay NBA player, was there, too. He and Ellen gave some remarks during a brief presentation, and both were well spoken.
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LifeWorks Mentoring hosts 'Life Out Loud,' June 9 in L.A.

Event date: June 9, 2007

LifeWorks Mentoring is hosting the second annual "Life Out Loud" cocktail reception in support of the organization's mission to enrich the lives of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youths. This event will recognize and celebrate the organization's supporters and help kick off Los Angeles Pride. The party will be hosted by LifeWork's honorary chair, Ellen Pompeo of the hit show Grey's Anatomy, and John Amaechi, former NBA player and grand marshal for Pride 2007.

The event will take place from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday, June 9. The reception will be held at 1120 N. Las Palmas Ave., Los Angeles. Tickets are $100. To purchase tickets or for more information, visit LifeWorks Mentoring online.
Source: Advocate

Star Tribune article `Paris`

C.J.: Bubbly and blisters unite Ellen Pompeo of 'Grey's' with a brand new buddy in Paris
By C.J., Star Tribune

Ellen Pompeo and Kim McNair clicked over champagne and blisters in Paris, as their guys looked on.

The "Grey's Anatomy" star was in Europe promoting the ABC show with her then-boyfriend/now-fiancé Chris Ivery; Kim and Tim Lawless were there to celebrate a wedding anniversary and play backgammon.

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The Minneapolis Ims, as Kim and Tim are known by friends in Europe, were waiting for their Yachts de Paris dinner ride on the Seine to begin when she said to Tim: "I love this city. Everywhere you go, they offer you champagne."Ellen and Chris come on and I look at my husband and say, 'Is it?' and he goes Yeah, for sure. She is sitting maybe 2 feet away from us," said Kim, "and she leans over with her champagne glass and clicks my glass and goes Don't you just love the city? They always offer you champagne."

They clicked so well that their two tables for two were combined into one table for four.

"The ship was very formal and Ellen was in formal wear, but she had flats, flip-flops on," Kim said. The TV doc, whose co-stars include another Minnesotan, T.R. Knight, started complaining about blisters.

"My husband's eyes rolled because I always carry these blister bandages. If you don't know about them they are the Band-Aids [brand]; I should have stock in the company," Kim said. "I always carry them around, but I didn't have them that night because I was carrying my little formal bag."

During dinner, Kim and Tim learned that Pompeo and Ivery, a music producer, were engaged, before the rest of the world was told.

"They had just gotten back from Monte Carlo," Kim said. "We were just heading to Monte Carlo for the International Backgammon Tournament, where [Tim's team], the only American team, won.

"They had their driver take us home [after the cruise]," Kim said. "The next day I sent [blister bandages] to their concierge and she just fell in love with them. You put them on, they stay on; you don't look like you have a Band-Aid on and you can wear your shoes. The next day they sent me a 4-foot bouquet, just beautiful, thanking me for the Band-Aids."

Two other planned meetings in other cities have been aborted. Work is always changing Pompeo's plans, while Kim, former owner and now an employee of Lite Spa, is busier than Tim, a retired electrical sales rep.

A couple of weeks ago, I heard buzz about Pompeo and Ivery coming here for Lawless' birthday party. "They didn't make it," Kim said. "Her schedule."

But if we see Pompeo and Ivery around town, there is a good chance they are hanging with the Ims.

Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune

Ellen Pompeo leaving the 101 Cafe - June 8, 2007

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Ellen Pompeo radio interview with Ryan Seacrest

Ellen Pompeo from "Grey's Anatomy" called in to chat about the show and the latest on the firing of Isaiah Washington.

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Ellen Pompeo Reacts to Isaiah Washington News

Though Ellen Pompeo was on Ryan Seacrest’s morning radio show on Friday to discuss her charity work, there was no escaping talk of her Isaiah Washington’s shocking dismissal from Grey’s Anatomy.

Pompeo also touched on Katherine Heigl’s summer movie success and Grey’s storylines for next year, but the good stuff came when Seacrest asked her about Washington and T.R. Knight’s fates. Here are those highlights:

Damage Control On Isaiah Washington’s departure:
“I got a call late last night from my lawyer…and I woke up this morning and saw it…that’s really all I know. I really can’t comment on my reaction.”

On whether she knew anything in advance:
“No. They’re very secretive about things, for obvious reasons. I guess actors have big mouths. So I didn’t really know what would happen, if anything. It’s not really my business…You just have to roll with the punches.”

On word that T.R. Knight has signed a contract to return:
“I certainly hope so. It’s such an ensemble. The show works, I think, because all of us have such great chemistry together.”

Source: 102.7 KISS-FOM, Usmagazine

News

• Who should get Emmy nominations?
  

  By Robert Bianco, USA TODAY
  
  It's not easy being Emmy voters. Their pick-the-nominee ballots arrive this week and their options are staggering — particularly in the best-drama category.You could easily name a dozen shows that are deserving, but only five shows can make the cut. So, as someone who actually watches TV, as opposed to reading DVD boxes and for-your-consideration ads, I offer this handy sample ballot. Emmy voters are free, indeed encouraged, to copy.
  
  Lead actress, drama
  Edie Falco (The Sopranos)
  Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer)
  Sally Field (Brothers & Sisters)
  Ellen Pompeo (Grey's Anatomy)
  Mary McDonnell (Battlestar Galactica)
  
  There's as much strength among the women in drama as there is among the men. There just isn't as much depth.That doesn't mean, though, that you can't fill a five-person list with people to spare. Start with Field, whose triumphant TV return in Brothers pushes the show to another level, and Falco, who has made Carmela ever more knowing and compelling. Then add in Pompeo, who may finally get the credit she deserves for tying Grey's plot threads together, and Sedgwick, who represents the victory of star power over less-than-stellar material.

  USA Today

• 10 dramatic moments from the 2006-07 TV season
  5. GREY'S ANATOMY
  "Wishin' and Hopin' " -- Feb. 1
  Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) has the chance to talk to her mother (Kate Burton), who temporarily snaps out of her Alzheimer's and becomes lucid before drifting back into her perpetual fog. It's a stark, wrenching exchange about choices and priorities -- the most haunting moment of the series.
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• Ellen Pompeo Grey's Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo warns neighbours about upcoming construction work to be done on her Hollywood home Los Angeles California - 11.06.07
  
  

‘Extra’ Answers Some Burning ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Questions

When is Ellen Pompeo getting married?

Who's Returning Next Season On 'Grey's'?

All Access

The stars of "Grey's Anatomy" comment on whether or not they will be returning for the next season of the show.

In recent weeks, T.R. Knight made headlines after saying he had not received a letter confirming he was back on the show, but Ellen Pompeo, who plays “Grey’s” title character Meredith, said such letters aren’t standard.

“I don’t know what all this talk is about – a letter? I’ve never had a letter,” she said. “In the beginning you have to sign [one] of course, but not sort of year-to-year. No one’s told me if I haven’t [been invited back].”

A Three-Way (Conversation) with Grey’s

Ellen Pompeo, James Pickens (AKA Grey’s Chief,) and I had a little shmoozefest at the 6th Annual Butterfly Ball. We touched on clothes, vacations, engagements… you name it!

What are your summer plans with your fiancé?
EP: We’re traveling. Far. We’re going to London. And Paris, and Japan. Well, London and Japan are work, and Paris is fun for us.

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What’s the dynamic on the set like with so many of the women engaged? Do you guys have bridal magazines everywhere.
EP: You know. I don’t know. No. They might look at bridal books but I haven’t. I’m not gonna have a big wedding. It’s not even gonna be necessarily a big event or anything like that. Very private. Just something between Chris and I. We want to have one thing for ourselves. You know. We want to have fun. We have a goal of trying to keep our marriage a secret for 24 hours. We’re gonna try to keep that. That’s our goal.

Who makes your dress?
EP: It’s Lanvin.

Where’d you get it, and what made you choose it?
EP: At Maxfields in LA… Because my YSL dresses from New York didn’t arrive in time, so I had to run out two hours ago and find something.

Who makes those shoes?
EP: Lanvin.

What are your beauty secrets?
EP: Water and sleep. And to be happy.

How do you feel about the future cast of Grey’s being up in the air?
EP: Oh, I think it’s hysterical. I think it’s very effective. They want everybody to ask questions and wonder. And they’re trying to stir up the press by doing it. And everybody falls head first into it. I guess they’re geniuses. You know, it’s working brilliantly because all of you are falling for it. They love all of you not knowing and wondering.

(James Pickens approaches and says hello to Ellen Pompeo.)

EP: Last summer we had a big vacation all of us.

JP: Yeah, we were in Europe.

EP: We went to Europe.

JP: That’s right. That’s right.

EP: We’re not gonna do that this year. Once was enough. (Laughing.)

JP: it was really great. It was beautiful. The cities were fabulous. That’s one of the kind of things you’ll never do it that way again. It was all dispersed and five star.

EP It was nice to all go together too. It was a fun experience.

JP: It was like being on a family vacation without being in the station wagon.

Who all went?
EP: James and I; our spouses; Kate Walsh; Chandra Wilson and her children; T.R. Knight; Justin and Keisha and his children. We had like eight kids.

JP: Yeah we had a lot of kids. Which made it really fun. We got to watch them experience it and that was what was really fun.

How do you feel about Kate Walsh’s sudden engagement?
EP: Very excited.

JP: Very happy for her.

What’s he like?
EP: I don’t know. I’ve only met him once very briefly. I’m sure he’s great.

JP: Yeah. I haven’t met him. But he better treat her right.

Or what?
JP: You don’t want to know. (Laughing.)

Source: Glamscene

Ellen Pompeo Dishes on Her Wedding Plans

Ellen Pompeo Dishes on Her Wedding Plans
MONDAY JUNE 04, 2007 07:30 AM EDT

Ellen Pompeo's upcoming wedding won't be a lavish production – but her co-stars might need to make some travel plans if they want to attend, she says.

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"There will be no 'big' anything," the Grey's Anatomy star, 37, told PEOPLE Saturday at the Chrysalis Butterfly Ball, a benefit for the homeless in Brentwood, Calif. "It's going to be very small."

Beyond that, she and record producer Chris Ivery, who got engaged in November, are keeping mum on the details, but Pompeo hinted that the ceremony won't take place in Los Angeles: "We were thinking about going away and getting married."

The actress was reunited Saturday night with some of her co-stars for the first time since production on Grey's wrapped several weeks ago. Also at the gala, hosted by Eric "Dr. McSteamy" Dane's wife Rebecca Gayheart: Patrick Dempsey, Kate Walsh, T.R. Knight, Justin Chambers, Sara Ramirez and James Pickens, Jr.

Pompeo said that when Ivery proposed on her 37th birthday, she was only slightly caught off guard. "Chris and I have been together for four and a half years, so I was completely surprised, but not that surprised. We've been together a while."

Ivery – like her, a Boston-area native – has changed her life because "I just have somebody to share everything with," she said, "all of these moments. The bad ones and the good ones. We have a very strong bond, and we just understand each other. He's just a real companion."

She added that she knew Ivery was "the one" early on: "I guess you fall in love and you think he's the guy right away. Right when you fall in love, you think he's the guy. You don't sort of fall into a relationship thinking it's only going to be temporary."

The couple met in a Los Angeles grocery store in 2003 and began dating about six months later after "one night she just looked different to me," Ivery, 38, told PEOPLE late last year. They quickly discovered that they had grown up about 10 miles away from each other in Massachusetts and that Ivery had met Pompeo's father there.

"We have a lot in common," Pompeo said Saturday. "We're from the same hometown, almost.

"Love is in the air for the cast of “Grey’s Anatomy!"

Ellen Pompeo and fiancé Chris Ivery are revealing they won’t be hitting the local beaches this summer – their vacation plans are a little more global! The adorable couple will head to Europe and Japan this summer. But the twosome are still keeping mum on when exactly they’ll get married.

“We’re not telling you,” said Ellen!

Added Chris, “We’re trying to work it out.”

Even a little prodding from McDreamy Patrick Dempsey can’t get them to unseal their lips.

“They’ll probably elope and nobody will know about it,” Patrick revealed.

The only thing Ellen has revealed about the wedding is that it will be far from extravagant.

“There will be no ‘big’ anything,” she told us, adding that the ceremony won’t take place in L.A.

Source: Extra, People

'Grey's Anatomy' stars gather for homeless charity

'Grey's Anatomy' stars gather for homeless charity
By William Keck, USA TODAY

PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — The dreamy, steamy docs of Grey's Anatomy, on hiatus for the summer, reunited Saturday night at a private mansion for charity. After a season with as much drama off screen as on, there was much to discuss.

"This is the first we're all seeing each other again," said Justin Chambers (Alex), who came with wife Keisha.

Excited to see co-star T.R. Knight (George), Ellen Pompeo (Meredith) embraced him and asked, "What happened to your blue hair?"

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"It was red," corrected Knight, who recently dyed his hair.

"He's so fun, such a crazy personality," said Pompeo, escorted by fiancé Christopher Ivery.

With Pompeo, Katherine Heigl (Izzie) and now Kate Walsh (Addison) all engaged, might they have a triple ceremony?

"No!" said Pompeo. "There will not be a Big Three anything. My wedding will be very small."

On screen, Dempsey and Pompeo are also hoping for harmony for their on-again, off-again characters.

"I would love for Derek and Meredith to have a healthy relationship," said Dempsey. "It got a little too depressing last year, and I think the writers need to lighten up and get back to the first season. That's what people want to see, and we really need to listen to the fans."

Pompeo agreed, noting, "My boyfriend and I are very happy and we still manage to be dramatic every day. There's never a shortage of things to talk about. I don't think you need sadness to have drama."

Source: USA Today

Sixth Annual Chrysalis Butterfly Ball - June 2, 2007

Ellen Pompeo at the Sixth Annual Chrysalis Butterfly Ball

Celebrities showed up to support Chrysalis, an organization is dedicated to helping economically disadvantaged and homeless individuals become self-sufficient through employment opportunities.

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Interviews

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Stranded Pompeo - June 01, 2007

STRANDED POMPEO HELPED BY PASSERS-BY
Passers-by rushed to the aid of damsel in distress Ellen Pompeo earlier today (01Jun07), after the actress' car broke down in Hollywood. The Grey's Anatomy star was left stranded at a gas station for more than an hour while she and her new friends tried to locate the problem under the hood of her Mercedes.

Fortunately, three - all male - passing Samaritans were more than pleased to help the 37-year-old solve her engine troubles.

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Source: WENN